Password Recovery Tool For Mac
Apple provides a password reset utility that is very handy when you really need it. In versions of Mac OS X before Lion you accessed this utility by booting your Mac with the included restore DVD. Mac OS X Lion can still reset passwords, but for unknown reasons Apple decided to hide this ability.
Today’s tip will show you how to discover the hidden password reset tool in the Mac OS X Lion Recovery HD Utility.
While password crackers for the Mac are non-existent as far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong!), the Mac Keychain is the way to reveal many of the passwords you've saved on your system. Windows password recovery tools are used to recover or reset lost user and administrator passwords used to log on to Windows operating systems. Password recovery tools are often called 'password cracker' tools because they are sometimes used to 'crack' passwords by hackers.
Older versions of Mac OS X included a utility that you could use to reset a password and restore a user’s folder permissions. Mac OS X Lion lost direct access to this utility, but it is still accessible from the Recovery HD. It is just harder to get too.
Whenever you need the utility access the Recovery HD by using Command+R while restarting your Mac. Once you are in the Recovery HD Utility open Terminal from its Utility menu and enter the following command:
resetpassword
and then press enter. This will launch the password utility, which is like the one that shipped with older versions of Mac OS X.
Is there any way to retrieve saved passwords from a non-working Firefox? Where are Firefox passwords stored on Mac OS X? In this tutorial we’ll show you 2 ways to recover forgotten Firefox password on Mac OS X.
Method 1: Recover Password Using Firefox’s Built-in Option
If you can still access the Firefox browser, it’s quite easy to view the saved website passwords by following these steps:
- Click the hamburger button (three horozontal lines) in the top-right corner of your Firefox browser, then select Preferences.
- In the Preferences window, click on the Security tab and then click the Saved Logins button.
- Now you will see list of website and username which has been saved in Firefox browser. Passwords are hidden for security reasons, you can click the Show Passwords button to reveal the saved passwords.
Method 2: Recover Firefox Password Using Password Recovery Tool
If your Firefox browse stops working or you need to recover passwords from an old hard drive, you can use the Firefox Password Recovery program. Here’s how to recover passwords from Firefox profile on Mac OS X:
Mac Password Reset Software
Mac Password Reset Tool
- From the OS X desktop or a Finder window, simply press Command(⌘) + Shift + G to bring up the Go to Folder dialog. Type the following path and press Enter.
~/Library/Application Support/Firefox - It will open your specified folder in the Finder window. From there you can see the Profiles folder which is used by Firefox to stored passwords and bookmarks.
As the Firefox Password Recovery program can run in Windows only, you need to copy the whole profile folder to a USB flash drive, and then transfer it to a Windows-based computer.
- Now download and install the Firefox Password Recovery program on your Windows-based computer. After installing, launch the program and click on the Recover From File button.
- In the pop-up dialog box, click on Browse button to select the Firefox profile folder stored in your USB flash drive. Once it’s done, click OK.
- The program will quickly decrypt the Firefox profile and display the login URLs, usernames and passwords for all saved login credentials.